The Effectiveness of Using Flash Card to Teach Vocabulary at Elementary School

Authors

  • Imam Muhyiddin Universitas Islam Majapahit

Keywords:

Vocabulary, Media, Flash Card, Quantitative Research

Abstract

This study aims to determine the effectiveness of flash card media compared to words list of media to students' vocabulary at elementary school MI HASYIM ASY'ARI. This study used experimental design which one group pre-test and post-test design. This research used quantitative analysis and was based four analysis steps : 1. Validity of the test 2. Reliability of the test 3. Data Analysis Pre-test and Post-test 4. T-test Analysis.The data of multiple choice test were collected from two scores there are pre-test and post-test, pre-test scores took before the research give the treatment and post-test scores took after the research give the treatment. The instrument of the research is Flash Card. The research findings of the study showed that there was a significant difference between pre-test and post-test results. it was indicated by the statistical of t-test which showed that te sig. (5%) was 10. it was higher than level of significance (10>2.5) which indicated that the one hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) was rejected. it can be conclude that flash card media is effective in teaching vocabulary at elementary school.

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Published

2020-07-28